Category: Rigged Draws

• World Cup Draw-Rigging Theories

  A recurring belief holds that FIFA's World Cup draws are secretly fixed — most famously through "hot and cold balls" that allow officials to identify them by touch, or through subtly marked balls — to engineer commercially or politically favourable groups. The theory is unproven and rejected by FIFA, but high-profile coincidences and the sport's repeated corruption scandals keep it in wide circulation.